Those happy Morris dancers make for a happy sight <br />They wear bright scarlet ribbons and their shirts and trousers white, <br />They clash their sticks whilst dancing and you hear the timbers ring <br />Though 'twould seem that Morris dancing is not a female thing. <br /> <br />I've never seen a female Morris dancer i stand corrected if I'm wrong <br />It has it's roots in England and to England it belong <br />And i hope that Morris dancing will not go the way of rhyme <br />That in a changing World it won't lose out to time. <br /> <br />They brought their culture with them from England far away <br />A culture perhaps fading like many of the old cultures are today <br />With the old dances of Europe i see a link somewhere <br />And sad to hear that Morris dancers are now becoming rare. <br /> <br />At the Dandenong Ranges festival east of Melbourne they perform every year <br />And after in the booze tent they laugh as they drink their beer, <br />They brought a thing of beauty when they brought their dancing here <br />And to those marvellous Morris dancers let us raise our glass of cheer. <br /> <br />Morris dancing vary from English Village to Village or so i have been told <br />Though the times they are a changing and fading are the ways of old <br />But those marvellous Morris dancers may they dance forever more <br />In the sunshine of Australia far from England's rainy shore<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/those-marvellous-morris-dancers/
